By Ron Carlson
A fantastically written and suspenseful story of affection and peril by way of an award-winning author Backpacking into the Wind River Mountains on their 10th annual journey, Mack and his spouse, Vonnie, locate the significant woods and beautiful mountains of Wyoming filled with ghosts and possibility. Mack comes from a protracted line of ranchers, and his commitment to protecting the relations land has led him into penury and a lifetime of crime. Vonnie is a fiercely clever, headstrong woman who got here west for romance, merely to have it stolen from her little by little. they have made this journey to claim see you later to one another, yet as they navigate the paths they recognize so good, they arrive to appreciate the real nature in their wounds. And Mack has another mystery: he's attempting to obtain a sign and retrieve anything that has fallen from the sky. it's a beacon that may lead them right into a wooden some distance darker than they have ever imagined. Ron Carlson's love for the mountains and his mastery of fiction radiate within the pages of this exciting, fast moving love tale.
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We won’t be clichés then. That’s all. I expect you know what to do. Talk the day with these kids and riding and horses and weather, and then send them back to supper. Don’t walk with them or have them out near the bunkhouse. My eyes are right here. I know you know what to do. I don’t want this business venture we’re in to hurt you, boy. I love you and I love this place. ” Mack leaned and held his hands out and then turned them over. They’d always done this: a show of hands. His father looked him over: nails, cuticles, knuckles, palms.
Dougie thinks school is heaven on earth. ” “And those,” Mack pointed. There were sheets of crayoned squares and faces pinned to the tent wall. “Those,” Clay said. “He’s got the philosophy,” Mack said. “People and houses. ” Mack asked him. “No, sir. ” “I’m just asking,” Mack said. ” “That’s the best coffee in Wyoming,” Vonnie said. ” “Stop by on the way down,” Clay told them. “There’ll be more. If I’m out with these guys, just come in and fire up some coffee. ” Mack nodded at Clay’s book. “Put us in the journal as two optimists,” he said.
The girl was out there somewhere, and he steeled his heart to the fact that she’d met someone and he’d get a clipping from one of the papers with her wedding announcement. He’d been busy and worried, but it hadn’t masked the other thing, a feeling he had for her. She called in September from a school outside of Minneapolis where she was teaching music theory. ” he said. ” He then sent her a hand-drawn map on the back of a paper placemat that indicated the Crowheart general store and how many miles it was to the unmarked turnoff to the trailhead and then a dotted line up the dirt road to the Cold Creek trailhead where he drew an X and noted: September 15.
